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At a House Democratic caucus meeting shortly after the news broke, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi took a call from President Barack Obama. Standing in front of the room, Pelosi asked lawmakers to “greet the president.” They did so with thunderous applause, according to a Democratic aide.

Many staffers who had worked on the law became emotional during the meeting.

The conventional wisdom in Washington was that the high court’s conservative majority would deliver a gut punch to the health care law, if not kill it entirely. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) last week warned his troops not the “spike the ball” if that happened.

So Republicans were initially just as stunned — and gloomy — that Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the court’s liberal wing in its most monumental decision in at least a decade.

But within hours, the somber mood turned to defiance, as Republicans resolved to turn the court’s ruling into an electoral win in November. We “quickly got on the same page,” said Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), calling the ruling a “slam dunk” for the party in November.

“The mood was very somber, because we’re very disappointed,” said Rep. Bill Johnson (R-Ohio). “We thought strongly the case had been made that this was an infringement on the rights of American people guaranteed under the Constitution and most of us felt like we were at least going to get part of that.”

I'm a conservative and I could not be happier today. Today the Supreme Court just confirmed to the American people that this bill is a TAX and therefore will stand. President Obama will have to bear the weight of this bill all summer long and explain in every debate with Gov. Romney that he is responsible for the largest tax increase in U.S. history.

Thank you Justice Roberts. Sometimes a team has to punt to win the game.

...by an Olympia Snowe wannabe waiting in the upper echelons of the SCOTUS.

We can only hope the pieces all fall in relatively good places as far as our society is concerned. Even if Romney is elected this is going to be harder than hell to unwind. You know the Radical Obama is implementing whats left even faster than before.

Apparently this is how laws are to written from this day forward. With a sixties Radical agenda jam them through as fast as possible with as many pages as possible ( to confuse the subject ) and as one sided, divisive and controversial as possible. And for gods sake dont bother reading it along the way.

General motors is alive, Bin Laden is dead...If the GOP had it's way, Bin Laden would be alive and General motors would be dead (along with millions of American jobs). Obama is now the one with the experience.

Why doesn't Mitt want to talk about his religion? They liked to talk about Obamas before and after elected Evangelical turnout is the key to Romney's political future. From now until Election Day. If they knew more about his religion, The Trinity United Church of Christ, is more of a true Christian religion than Mitt's Mormonism. Mitt who should be talking about his religion won't. He will do any thing to get elected, He'd probably denounce his religion. If Mitt was running as a Democrat, you would hear about his religion daily on Fox News.